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Announcements

ByRosemary April 24, 2016

Rosemary preparing to read her Blessing of The Week

Rosemary’s Blessing

Grant us, Lord God,

A vision of your world as your love would have it:

A world where the weak are protected, and none go hungry or poor;

A world where the riches of creation are shared, and everyone can enjoy them;

A world where different races and cultures live in harmony and mutual respect;

A world where peace is built with justice, and justice is guided by love.

Give us the inspiration and courage to build it, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

From “Engaging our Faith”, www.ucc.org

Connie reading from Acts.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: John & Connie
For The Team: Kevin
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & Patricia & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Tom & Becky & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
For all who helped with communion

John reading from Revelations.

Birthdays: David Dinsmore (Wednesday), Cliff Wright (72, Saturday) & John Simari (Saturday)

Anniversaries:

Randolph & Michelle (19^th, Monday)

Congratulations, Bill, on the new job.

Special Service Advice: if you are in need of a roofer who is LOCAL, TRUSTWORTHY, AND EXCELLENT, contact Stephen Summers, 972-464-8488. He is really good. Sorry for not thinking of him sooner for all of you who are searching for a good worker. He has done good work for us. Let him know I sent you, John

Can we trust Nina, Folks. This is for Kerry, Nina, on his birthday.

Please Remember these special people:

For Lynda's mom who just died yesterday morning, Saturday; For Barbara & Carl; For Nadia's recuperation; For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom in Alberta; For Dee and Mike; For Tom Good; For Teresa's dad who died recently; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron & his mother in law, who just died this week; For Frank; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For Stacey McKinley, to remain from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla; For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Thanks, Cole, for being an Ace Candle Lighter.

For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman; For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad who died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

So sorry, Brent, we just ran out of cupcakes. You will have to be satisfied with this old check.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Good Morning, Harper, Welcome in.

Your Finances, April 24, 2016

Expenses: $1470.00

Outreach: $ 495.00

Donated today: $2000 to Soul's Harbor

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Who let in those two old geezers before everybody else?

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Kevin says, "See you next week, Everybody."

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, April 24, 2016, 5th Easter

ByRosemary April 20, 2016

"Welcome in," say Jackie & Jimmy.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack.

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

And from Leo on high, "Good Morning, Everybody."

Readings:

Acts 14, 21-27, It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom.

Psalm 145, I will praise you name forever, my king and my God, plus the great line (8), The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness.

Revelation 21, 1-5, I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth.

John 13, 31-33, 34-35, My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Don't you people know better than to go out in the rain?? Look outside. It is 10 A.M. and pouring outside.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, April 22 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.
JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together):

Please join us for the next JULIET gathering. Thursday EVENING to include

those who work during the day. May, 5 at 6:00 for cocktails, followed by

dinner at 7:00. MARCUS CAFE in the II Creeks Shopping Center

Custer at Lookout in Richardson, South of Bush Turnpike.

Named "The best patio for outdoor dining in the Metroplex" (or if weather

demands we can eat inside as well). Great Italian food, live music, full bar,

friendly atmosphere. Come, Eat, Drink, Laugh, Sing, Enjoy the music

and friends! Respond with reservation to prattquest@yahoo.com

Communion for Jackie & Jimmy.

What is going on in our Catholic World

Just War theory questioned, National Catholic Reporter, April 14, 680 words, Download New Just War 4-21-16
Reform Catholic Doctrine, National Catholic Reporter, April 19, 400 words, Download Reform Catholic Doctrine 4-21-16

Communion for Zoe and Tori.

True?

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

MICHEL LEGRAND

You girls on the back row are having too much fun, Kara & Denise, and Caroline.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Who is on that phone, Zoe?

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Big sister and little brother helping each other.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, April 17, 2016, 4th Easter

ByRosemary April 17, 2016

Readings:

Acts 13, 14, 43-52, Paul and Barnabas continued on from Perga.

Psalm 100, We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Revelation 7, 9, 14-17, I, John, had a great vision.

John 21, 19-31, My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Genevieve welcomes all you folks and says, "Welcome in!" Guess who is 1 year old.

Genevieve in May 2015.

Acts observations:

More of the same, Paul's travels.

Kevin, too, says, "Come in, Everybody. It is only rain out there. Not even any hail. Just a bit of flooding. No need for an ark yet."

We are a Team

Boston Marathon is tomorrow. Who is going from our community? Tom & Lynda. Paul & Carrie did it last year.

See the article in the Dallas Morning News yesterday? About Carol Ann Taylor running for her husband Sterling Proctor. Sterling is, or was, a CO hiker and a French horn player in the F.W. Symphony. He also biked The Lake, White Rock.

He now has a worsening degenerative muscle condition that has him relegated to an electric wheel chair.

The Great Candle Lighter at work. Do not disturb.

Carol Ann, Sterling’s wife, is running The Boston to earn money for more research into Sterling’s condition. It is her first. She runs “for my heart, for my Sterling,” she said.

The reporter noted how they listened to each other, how they were in sync with each other. When they said of themselves, “We are a team,” I thought they have The Karma. They are a team. Carol Ann runs tomorrow and Sterling will watch via satellite.

Rosemary & I know another couple who has had The Karma, Carl & Barbara Castille.

Offertory, John & Jim, Karen & John. Thanks.

Carl is one of my best Jesuit buddies. Carl is a Cajun (like you, John), growing up near Opelousas, LA. We entered the Jesuits together in 1958 (60 years this 2018), and we lived together in the same large houses for 7 years.

Carl was coming to our Spring Hill College reunion last weekend. He & Barbara live in a suburb of Pittsburg. He had come early to visit his family around Opelousas. I knew Carl had attempted and failed to book into the same Fairfield Inn as I and my companion, Francis Vanderwall, the guy who spoke to us some years ago. So I did not really notice Carl’s absence the first night.

The Best, Mary & Bethany & Ray.

Somewhere during Saturday we heard that Carl had returned to Pittsburg because Barbara had a stroke and was hospitalized. The guys and I, we were all stunned. I began to phone. In fact, the first time I phoned I got Barbara’s phone with her voice message.

Day by day I called, mostly talking to Robbie, their son who was handling the phone. And day by day Barbara got worse. She had more strokes and Robbie said each day that she was losing ground. At one point Robbie told me that Barbara was going into Hospice and that the family was telling her she did not have to fight to stay alive. She could let loose. Finally I was home and called again. This time Carl answered and said Barbara had died.

The A Team, including Buddy.

I was in tears, Carl was in tears, and we could hardly speak. Barbara and Carl had The Karma. Rosemary & I could sense it when we stayed with them last year in Pittsburg. They were a team like Carol Ann and Sterling.

Carl is a Good Karma guy. He has other teams he can rely on, like their 3 grown kids. I hope to help out, even from a distance.

Sisters, Victoria and Zoe.

I would suggest that we all need to be part of a team. Rosemary & I are a team. I would also suggest that we have a team in this community. I am humbled by this every time we come together and I am grateful.

And you. Who makes up your Team?

The Butterlies, caught in the act of having too much fun at Mass, Kara, Denise, and James.

Announcements

ByRosemary April 17, 2016

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week.

Rosemary’s Blessing

May the sun bring you new energy by day,

May the moon softly restore you by night,

May the rain wash away your worries,

May the breeze blow new strength into your being.

Apache Blessing

Mike acting out our reading from Acts. Somehow he got into The Flood.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Mike & Erin
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Jan & Sir Charlie
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Tom & Becky & Jackie
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue ( really Linda, Hue's wife )
For the Music: Ray & Mary & Bethany
For all who helped with communion

Erin reading from Revelations.

Birthdays: Claire & Darbiana (20)(Sunday);

Anniversaries:

John & Connie D. (25^th Thursday)

John & Alison (22nd, Saturday)

Special Service Advice: if you are in need of a roofer who is LOCAL, TRUSTWORTHY, AND EXCELLENT, contact Stephen Summers, 972-464-8488. He is really good. Sorry for not thinking of him sooner for all of you who are searching for a good worker. He has done good work for us. Let him know I sent you, John

Would you dare to trust this guy with his wife, Claire's birthday cupcake??

Please Remember these special people:

For Barbara & Carl; For Claire's mom; For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom in Alberta; For Dee and Mike; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom; For Teresa's dad who died recently; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron & his mother in law; For Frank; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For Stacey McKinley, to remain from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla; For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Thanks for being a Candle Lighting Specialist, Cole.

For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman; For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Congratulations, Alison & John, on 22 years.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Congratulations, John & Connie, on 25 years.

Your Finances, April 17, 2016

Expenses: $1615.00

Outreach: $ 810.00

Donated today: Nothing special

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Happy First Birthday, Genevieve. What do you think about cupcakes???

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

Brandon says, "So long, Folks, See you next week."

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, April 17, 2016, 4th Easter

ByRosemary April 13, 2016

Genevieve says, "Welcome in, Folks." Beware: this little girl walks!

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home-made.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & Stack.

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

Victoria, also, says, "Hi, Folks, Come in."

Readings:

Acts 13, 14, 43-52, Paul and Barnabas continued on from Perga.

Psalm 100, We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Revelation 7, 9, 14-17, I, John, had a great vision.

John 21, 19-31, My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

Sunday's A Team, Kevin, John, Buddy, Georgie, & Mike.

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, April 15 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in.
JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together):
Please join us for the next JULIET gathering. Thursday EVENING to include

those who work during the day. May, 5 at 6:00 for cocktails, followed by

dinner at 7:00. MARCUS CAFE in the II Creeks Shopping Center

Custer at Lookout in Richardson, South of Bush Turnpike.

Named "The best patio for outdoor dining in the Metroplex" (or if weather

demands we can eat inside as well). Great Italian food, live music, full bar,

friendly atmosphere. Come, Eat, Drink, Laugh, Sing, Enjoy the music

and friends! Respond with reservation to prattquest@yahoo.com

Sunday's A Music Team, The Best.

What is going on in our Catholic World

Six points to watch for in Francis' Amoris Laetitia, National Catholic Reporter, April 5, 286 words, Download Six Points 4-14-16
How to read Amoris Laetitia, National Catholic Reporter, April 8, 808 words, Download Reading Amoris 4-14-16

Leo, the Candle Lighter.

True?

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take off their shirts during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

Trophy tree, Spring Hill College campus, one of many. A Live Oak.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Assumption Hall, Spring Hill College, the Jesuit students' residence. I lived there 1962-1965 with ca. 150 fellow Jesuits. It has been torn down and replaced with a colony of attractive student apartments. Did the college not want to make it a historical monument??

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Spring Hill College Chapel. Saturday evening after Mass reception.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, April 10, 2016, 3rd Easter

ByRosemary April 10, 2016

Readings:

Acts 5, 27-32, 40-41, The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus

Psalm 30, I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Revelation 5, 11-14, I heard to voices of many angels.

John 21, 19-31, Simon, do you love me more than these?

Introduction: In our reading from Luke’s Acts we are told that the apostles are teaching, through the power of the Spirit, about the Lamb of God. At this time they have in their possession the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke. In the Book of Revelation, written later, we are told about the four living creatures that glorify the Lamb of God. They are the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John; in these gospel stories Jesus is alive to us through the power of the Spirit.

The Offertory Procession – Tom, Teresa, Caroline and David

Homily by Mike:

Today’s gospel reading is not in the original John gospel. It was added later with two other parable-like stories. Since the gospels complement one another, the inspired writers of the Matthew gospel prepare us for this reading with the words, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a net, thrown into the sea, that catches people of every kind,’ and that’s why Jesus had called his disciples to be fishers of men.

In Judaism, there was a net; it was called the Sabbath Synagogue Service. Later the inspired writers initiated a net in which the Sunday gospel reading fulfilled the expectation of the Law and/or the Prophets for the coming of Christ. We give thanks that the Holy Spirit moved the Church to re-institute the net during Vatican II, to be used in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

Kevin, John, Buddy, and Georgie

In today’s parable-like story, Peter and six others have gone fishing for gentiles, not fish. We know their intention because seven disciples also began this mission to the gentiles in the Matthew and Mark gospels, and in Luke’s Acts of the Apostles. We are told on the first day of their mission they caught nothing. Jesus tells them in this parable story to use the net, and that even if they cast it to the worst possible place, the right side of the boat were the rudder would most likely tangle the net; they would still catch many gentiles. The success that the disciples have ignites John’s heart, and he tells Peter, ‘It is the Lord.’

Now, there are two synonymous fish in this story. Each has the same Greek definition, ‘to be eaten along with the bread.’ Recall the gospel stories about the loaves and fish that anticipate the Lord’s Supper. After the Lord blesses the loaves and fish, or gives thanks over them, he gives them to his disciples to distribute to the Jews and to the gentiles. So, what is it that we are to consume today along with the body of Christ, the bread blessed and broken that we are called to become daily in our lives? It is this Sunday’s Liturgy of the Word where our parable story was first proclaimed and now being explained.

Hi, Genevieve

Many of you have or have seen other Christians whose cars or homes show the symbol of the fish, ichthus, one of these two words for fish in this parable story. Recall its Greek acronym stands for, ‘Jesus, Christ, God’s Son and Savior.’ Believers identify themselves with it. And they should! This Greek word for fish is found throughout Matthew, Mark and Luke; but in John it is only found there in today’s reading along with the other word for fish found only in John.

Shonda, Ray and David

If you study today’s reading carefully in Greek, you will realize that the net used by the seven to catch many gentiles was composed of the 153 parable-like stories written by the inspired writers of Matthew, Mark and Luke. In our reading today, Jesus joins them with the original gospel stories of John, that were not yet in use but in these disciple’s possession, along with the additions to the John gospel on the grill, to form the one Gospel. The truth presented by this parable-like story is that the net that was formed will not be divided; there is one Gospel, one net, to be used to the ends of the earth.

Today’s parable-like story ends this way: Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. This is how the disciples knew that it was the Lord present to them in both the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the Word.

Leo, the Candle Lighter

Announcements

ByRosemary April 10, 2016

Rosemary’s Blessing

May God protect you

From silly fears and from bitter tears

From foolish fights and from sleepless nights

From excessive needs and from nasty deeds

From self-made hells and from all bad times.

Andrew N Greeley A Book of Irish American Blessings and Prayers

Jackie reading from the Acts of the Apostles

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Jackie & Patricia
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Mary
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Jackie, Tom & Becky
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany & David
For all who helped with communion

Birthdays: Tom Zurchin (Monday), Kerry Tucker (Thursday)

Anniversaries:

Curtis & Mabel (63, Tuesday)

Mabel gets a cupcake for her Anniversary

Please Remember these special people:

For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom in Alberta; For a friend, Barbara who suffered a stroke this week and also has cancer and for her husband, Carl; For Dee and Mike; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom; For Teresa's dad who died a week ago; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Frank; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For Stacey McKinley, to remain from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla; For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Patricia reading from Revelations

For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman; For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Happy Birthday, Tom

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Hi, Kevin

Your Finances, April 10, 2016

Expenses: $ 715.00

Outreach: $ 301.00

Donated today: Nothing special

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Have a Great Week, J.S

(214-783-0443)

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for & challenges spiritual & total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged & make the world we live in a better place to live.

Buddy gets a cupcake for helping

Reminders

Reminder for Sunday, April 10, 2016, 2nd Easter

ByRosemary April 6, 2016

Hi, Tori, Welcome in. You look beautiful today.

Welcome: Catholic Mass with coffee & juice, and pastries, some bought, some home made.

Time: 9:30; Celebrate with the Community & John & Mike.

Place: Sigler Elementary, 1400 Janwood Drive, Plano, TX 75075

And off they go, Leo taking Genevieve for a little ride.

Readings:

Acts 5, 27-32, 40-41, The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus

Psalm 30, I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Revelation 5, 11-14, I heard to voices of many angels.

John 21, 19-31, Simon, do you love me more than these?

Offertory with Bernadette, Carol, and Richard

Community Activities:

ROMEO MEET: Friday, April 8 , Jason's Deli, Collin Creek Mall, west side of Central, 1:00. Welcome all wakos, you will fit right in. An Old Geezer will be out of town.
JULIET LUNCHEON, (aka.,just us ladies into eating together) To be announced.

Healing & Life for Tom.

What is going on in our Catholic World

1. Catholic Women speak out, Commonweal, March 29, 777 words, Download Catholic Women 4-7-16

2. Cardinal chides clergy for lack of mercy, National Catholic Reporter, March 31, 415 words, Download Carfdinal on Mercy 4-7-16

3. Obama to Cuba, National Catholic Reporter, April 2, 606 words. Download Obama to Cuba 4-7-16

Healing & Life for Paul & Carrie.

True?

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Communion for All.

See you Sunday.

J.S., 214-783-0443

Communion for All, even Little Ones

JSM Mission-Faith Statement

Help create a Catholic Community that welcomes all God’s People, provides for and challenges spiritual and total growth.

Reaches out to help people who are disadvantaged and make the world we live in a better place to live.

Our Father. Peace, Everyone.

Homilies

Sunday Homily, April 3, 2016, 2nd Sunday Easter C

ByRosemary April 3, 2016

Readings:

Acts 5, 12-16, Many signs and wonders were done among the people.

Psalm 118, Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting

Revelation 1, 9-19, I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s day.

John 20, 19-31, Thomas, “Unless I see the mark of the nails.

Harper says, "Hi, Everybody, Welcome in."

Acts observations: I won’t bore you every Sunday for the next six with these same observations. I thought I would mention them because you may have missed them Easter Sunday with all that was going on. Periodically I will remind you of the basics.

Date: sometime before the year 70. Why? No mention of the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place the year 70, a Big Date in Jewish history.

Genevieve, too, says, "Hi, Folks, come in."

Who: The same person who wrote the Gospel of Luke. How do we know? Similarities of style, language (Greek), and theological themes.

Subject: The story of the expansion of the Jesus story in 3 areas, first, Jerusalem, then, Palestine or the Holy Land, and finally, into the Mediterranean and ultimately, Rome.

Today’s Subject: a description of the growth & expansion within the first area, Jerusalem.

Sources: Good News Bible, The New Interpreter’s Study Bible, Wikipedia

Hi, Cathy, and welcome to you, too. Thanks for bringing Harper.

New Life Next Weekend

Next Sunday when you all come together here I will be getting together with my former Jesuit classmates in the beautiful college chapel at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. We guys spent the 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th years of our training at Spring Hill.

It is class reunion time this weekend and about 8 of us gathered last year for the same event. This year the alumni board is making a big deal out of us and is inviting all the ex and present Jesuits who got degrees at Spring Hill to special recognition. There could be hundreds.

Leo, the Candle Lighter, at work on the Easter Candle.

When I was there we had about 150 guys residing in Assumption Hall, which has been since demolished and replace with smaller units of student housing.

I would like to make 4 observations on the uniqueness of this group of guys.

You never know what you will find out on April 1. The Juliets.

First, all joined up to be Jesuit priests despite the 10-14 years of training involved. Some entered out of college, others, like myself, entered out of high school. I got the full 14 years of training, which at the time was not too bad. It was broken up into 3 & 4 year goals.

Secondly, all these guys became well educated, whether in the Jesuits or after leaving. Lots of the guys taught in schools and universities. They were a pretty progressive group, interested in service, usually to the poor. All would have made good priests and good contributors to the numerous Jesuit high schools, universities, parishes, and retreat houses. In my early years there were 35,000 Jesuits just in the U.S.

Welcome, Nora, into our special Catholic Family.

Thirdly, in my class there is and has been a love of reuniting to see how everyone is doing. There is a comfort zone and guys are willing to share pretty important parts of their lives.

I remember a reunion maybe 3-4 years ago in New Orleans. One of my buddies, Bill, who had cared for his wife for some years before she died of cancer was there. I had not seen him or talked with him since she had died. I was sitting in the group where we were talking about where each of us was at.

Tom and Denni with their just baptized grandbaby.

Bill had not said anything. I remember debating within myself. But I am used to asking these questions. Finally I simply asked him would he be willing to share how it was to care for and lose his wife. We were all in tears.

In Wernersville, PA there is a large Jesuit retreat house & novitiate. Every summer a reunion of some 50 or more Jesuit & ex-Jesuit classmates gather for a weekend. I just found out about this from one of my classmates from the east. I plan to go some summer in the future.

These reunions are just among Jesuits. There is a large, more formal group called Corpus. These guys seem to be mostly ex-diocesan priests.

John Cade, any Carmelite groups?

Who are all these people, Nora? Why, that is you granddad, Tom, your sister, Charlotte, your grandmommy, Denni, your big sister, Chloe, your mommy, Claire, and your daddy, Andrew.

Final observation. Do you realize that within the next 30 years these groups will all disappear? We have here a unique sample of the population, ex-priests and ex-seminarians. They all wanted to be priests. They all wanted to be married. Because of Vatican II in the ‘60s, they decided remaining celibate was not healthy for them. Shortly the whole group will pass on.

A little slice of history for you today, folks.

Nora, you are beautiful and perfect. Welcome into our world.

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ByRosemary April 3, 2016

Rosemary reading her Blessing of The Week

Rosemary’s Blessing

Life is short …

Break the rules,

Forgive quickly,

Kiss slowly,

Love truly,

Laugh uncontrollably,

And never regret anything that made you smile.

Author Unknown

Mary reading from Acts.

Our Special Thanks

For the Readings: Mary & Grace
For The Team: Kevin & Georgie & Buddy
For the Communion Bread: Alison
For the Wine & Cups: Mike & Judy
For the Pictures: Rick & Connie & Beth & Mike
For the coffee and extras: Jackie, Tom & Becky
For the altar & sound: Jackie & Hue
For the Music: Ray & Shonda & Bethany
For all who helped with communion

Grace reading from Revelation.

Birthdays: Jean O’Donnell (79, Wednesday), Hugh Bivona (26^th, Wednesday), Betty Porterfield (84, Friday)

Anniversaries:

Casey & Robbie (13^th, Tuesday)

Harper, everybody with a little cold should get a cupcake, right?

Please Remember these special people:

For Jan’s mom; For Grace's mom in Alberta; For Dee and Mike; For Tom Good; For Lynda's mom; For Teresa's dad who died a week ago; For Cliff & Jean; For Loretta's brother, Don Garcia; For Laura's sister Claudia; For Bernadette's mom; For Dawn; John Simari’s friend, Ron; For Frank; For Anthony; For a number of David McKeon's family who are having a rough time with health issues; For Frank & Mary's niece, Lisa, with cancer; For Stacey McKinley, to remain from cancer; For Rosemary's sister, Patty and her husband, Lou; For John & Jean's son John Louis; For our good friend Kay in Ontario; For Connie's nephew, Fred; For Mary Jane Stevenson's son Philip, 34, sick & don't know why; The Quinn’s granddaughter, Mikayla; For Maureen’s daughter, Kathleen, with cancer; For Jackie Urbanczyk's continued recovery; For Jackie's friend, Barbara

Buddy, this cupcake is for you being such a super helper, thanks.

For Nadia's friend, Shannon Freeman; For Nina Tucker's dad, Art; For Sr. Patricia Otillio, a nun I worked with for years in Grand Coteau; Judy Thompson's dad in the hospital; John Cade's mother in law, Kalliopi Piskiouli; Charlie's brother in law with cancer; Beth Dugan's dad who just died; Frank’s sister, Grace Campos, 84, with stage one; Diane McClurg's mom having a hard time making the transition to assisted living; For Jean and Cliff with mutual operations coming up;

Mike, this is a consolation cupcake. Welcome, everybody, Monday Evening. Mike will spend his last night at their old house in his tent in the back yard after an evening campfire.

Dick Thompson's daughter, Teri Jill. Barb & Warren's grandbabies, Leighton Elizabeth and Warren Phillip, & their friend Chris, plus Barb's dad & niece; Gilberto's mom and brother; Tom and Teresa Quinn's niece, Chawna, with cancer, plus Neva Flynn, Angel, and Diane Kreeitzer; Connie Doherty's mom and her sister, plus Kevin's cousin, Peter; for Mary Ellen & her Margaret, Jim, & Christopher; for our friends, sons, and daughters in the military, including Ryan McClurg and Chebino; cure for autism from Laura Chollick; for our President that he have great success and someday hold his grandchildren in his lap.

Sorry, Brent, no cupcake for you (just $2,000).

Your Finances, April 3, 2016

Expenses: $760.00

Outreach: $275.00

Donated today: $2,000 to Souls Harbor

$300 to Plano Homes

Thanks for your Generosity, Everybody.

Hi, Zoe, how come you look so pretty?

Have a Great Week, J.S

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